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The comfortable house: North American suburban architecture, 1890-1930 by Alan Gowans; bibliography by Lamia Doumato is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Between 1890 and 1930, more houses were built in the United States than in all its previous history. <i>The Comfortable House</i> provides the first full treatment of this large body of domestic building. More than half of the book is devoted to classifying these houses into categories that can help guide preservationists, architectural historians and homeowners through the great profusion of "post Victorian" styles - Bungalow, Saltbox, Shingle, Tudor, Gothic, and the like.<br><br>Aided by over

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Alan Gowans; bibliography by Lamia Doumato
Publisher
The MIT Press
Published
1986
Language
EN
ISBN
9780262570763
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Architecture, History, Art
Updated
2026-03-24

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